/me wonders if this baby will run on my machine.....

Not bloody likely, EB.

That was certainly saliva-inducing, though I am a little concerned about the graphics ( they are touting it to be the same kind of huge graphical leap forward that Homeworld was , and right now it doesn't look so great ) , but who cares, Homeworld 2 is Homeworld 2.

The vid looks sweet, but I honestly have to say I don´t know what to expect, because I have never played Homeworld before

o.. trust me.. it was like that for me.. first, i got bored cuz there was no variety.. only differen't looking ships.. practically the same.. then.. i dropped it.. i took it up again maybe a week ago and i'm hooked.. its kinda something that'll hook you once you run outta alternatives.


This is currently registered with the FAA as a glider, and according to FAA records, it has no engine - which is technically true, if you ignore that large rocket in back.

I think it looks great. Relic seems to employ the Metal Gear Solid school of design for its Homeworld series: clean lines and textures over a not terribly complex 3-D model. It should run fine on your comp in the first few missions, EB, where there are relatively few ships, but after that it'll go downhill.

The original was mindnumbingly cool at the time, although I began to get frustrated by the lack of time acceleration and the fact that beating missions ultimately became less about any real strategical thinking on your part, and more about replaying the missions until you knew when and where everything was going to happen. I never even really beat it, but I'm glad to have played it, though.



Halcyon : I’ve got one more bit of intelligence to pass along to everyone. We believe Bhurak Starkiller may be in the system.
Angel : Bhurak Starkiller, sir?
Halcyon : He’s Kilrah’s hottest pilot in the Salthi light fighter.

Hehe, titbits.

I have homeworld and homeworld cataclysm. Homeworld (1) was a great game. I played that game for months. I played the SP game, couldnt beat it, and went on to multiplayer/skirmish mode. Eventually, i went back to the SP and won it after awhile. After that i got homeworld: cataclysm. That game wasnt great. I didnt like the fact that in H:C, fighters and corvettes were useless. The corvette was 2 fighters linked together, unless you played on the "beast" side (the bad guys), where you had a large bunch of terribly pitiful ships. Oh well. 3 days ago, i was looking through gamesdomain.com previews, and i saw one of homeworld 2. At first i thought it meant the same thing as H:C, but then i was like cool, a sequel. (H:C was an expansion pack). Homeworld 2 looks to be a great game, and im counting down the days to august.